Giving Tuesday, giving meaning to the holiday season

Finished with your Christmas shopping, after hitting those Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday sales? Yeah, me neither.

But what I AM ready for is Giving Tuesday, a day focused on giving back.

You can participate in your own way - volunteer with a nonprofit, donate
food to the hungry or donate money to your nonprofit of choice. However
you give, it will make a difference this holiday season.

You can also participate in Giving Tuesday by posting photos with #unselfie and #givingtuesday. You'll be featured on the Giving Tuesday website, and you'll share the message with all your followers! It's such a simple way to care about others for an important day.

If you want to support an environmental nonprofit this year, here are just a few to check out (but of course, choose any nonprofit you want!)

charity: water. Bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

World Wildlife Fund. Conserving nature and reducing the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth.

Greenpeace. Uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.